Learn the Basics of Chicken Pickin', Including String Bending, Chromatic Licks and More
Chicken Pickin' provides a bird's-eye-view of this quintessential country style, teaching the techniques and licks common to playing hot lead guitar!
It covers: open-string licks, double-stop licks, scales, string bending, repetitive sequences, chromatic licks and much more. The book includes standard notation and tab, and the accompanying CD features 99 demonstration tracks, with each lick in the book performed at two tempos.
This 40-page book (with CD) is available now at the Guitar World Online Store for $16.95.
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